Sunday 4th December 2022 2.00pm Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Tickets Book Now Venue Verbrugghen Hall, The Sydney Conservatorium of Music Concert Program Conductor

Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House Concert Program Conductor Artists What do we love about Puccini? There’s his sense of drama, his concern for human stories

Musicians of The Sydney Youth Orchestra, conducted by Max McBride, perform Anderson’s Trumpeter’s Lullaby. Featuring Elizabeth Dawson, Harry James, Toby Rands and Amy Fox.

Berlioz’s monumental Symphonie Fantastique, conducted will be conducted by Max McBride. Revealing plenty about Berlioz’s opium use and unsettling obsession with actress Harriet Smithson, this slightly twisted, autobiographical work is a true behemoth; originally scored for four sets of timpani and four harps, you get the sense that Berlioz was really trying to make an impression. We think it works. Evidently, so did Bernstein – check it out. 

The return of large, symphonic repertoire to the stage calls for something special. In this first program of 2022, The Sydney Youth Orchestra celebrates the power and scale of the symphony orchestra with an ethereal, World Premiere work by Alice Chance, Colourburst.